Hermann Kellenbenz, Sephardim on the Lower Elbe. Their Economic and Political Significance from the End of the 16th to the Early 18th Century, Wiesbaden 1958

Source Description

The study “Sephardic Jews
on the Lower Elbe” published by Franz Steiner Verlag in 1958 as volume 40 of their supplement to the academic
journal Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial- und
Wirtschaftsgeschichte (edited by Hermann Aubin) may be
considered a central contribution to Hamburg’s Jewish
history of the early postwar
period. Its author, Hermann Kellenbenz, was one
of the most influential German economic historians of his
generation. In his 600-page book, he studied the economic significance of the
Sephardic Jews who were
expelled from Spain in the early 16th
century and had been allowed to settle in Hamburg. However, the
publication’s origins date back to the National Socialist period,
when Kellenbenz had
received a research assignment by the Reich Institute for the History of the
New GermanyReichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen
Deutschlands. This fact is omitted in the
study’s preface – which is hardly surprising for this time period.

Recommended Citation

Hermann Kellenbenz, Sephardim on the Lower Elbe. Their Economic and Political Significance from the End of the 16th to the Early 18th Century, Wiesbaden 1958 (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History,
<https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-97.en.v1> [February 22, 2019].